Month August 2004

In preparing the flat for the new tenants, I spent this evening installing a new electric shower as the previous shower had been unable to heat water. Apparently the last shower had been unable to heat water because there was…

Chick 

Well not as soggy as it could be. Saturday it didn’t rain and we did something that we promised our selves for a while, which was to get the bus into Haltwhistle and walk back. We got the 3.00 bus,…

and thundering We’ve been good at unplugging the modem though to protect it from blowing again. Duck with a bad leg still has a bad leg and we have another one now limping. I am sure that they cannot be…

I don’t think it has stopped for a fortnight now. Seems hard to believe we were eating outside when M & D were here – and indeed that Dad could get out strimming, now he would need wellies and a…

Last night when we went to bed, our damaged quail chick had absconded from the box he shares with a guinea fowl chick and was roaming loose in the spare bedroom. My personal feeling on this was good luck to…

A fantastic advert obscured by a lovely ring 

Well, not too bad a day actually. We’ve got it down to a fine art now, the boxes ready to go the night before (pre planning how novel), alarm goes off, out of bed, feed and run dogs, feed chickens…

Well – what storms! The skies went black, the rain came down, thunder and lightening bounced round the hills – and the modem blew. So we’ve been off line for a few days. Had similar problems at work so we’ve…

As we live in Swanage to visit K and I ‘up North’ means that we travel the entire length of the country. We leave the rolling Downs of Dorset and the gentle hills of the Cotswolds and into the vast…